absoluteparanoia: FTFA: Voters by a substantial majority think a woman is likely to be elected president of the United States in the next 10 years, and nearly half (48%) think Hillary Clinton is at least somewhat likely to be the one.

I do survey design for a living, and if that's honestly how they're asking the questions then they might as well not run the survey period.

"Question 1. Do you think that Hillary maybe might somewhat be possibly a choice that could conceivably become maybe the president in a the somewhat near future? Yes/No"

If you really did survey design well you'd know the questions were framed like this:

Q1. How likely or unlikely do you think there will be a woman President in the next ten years?
A. Very Likely
B. Slightly Likely
C. No opinion
D. Slightly Unlikely
E. Very Unlikely

Q2. I'm going to read off a list of names, and you tell me how likely or unlikely using that same scale you think it is they will be President:
Q2a. Hillary Clinton
Q2b. Condoleeza Rice
Q2c. Your mom

The nearly half (48%) think Hillary Clinton is at least somewhat likely to be the one just means they totaled up the responses of A and B, so 48% said they either thought it was Very Likely or Slightly Likely. You want to suffer like a surveyor? Say "Slightly Likely" 100 times.

mferris: Kohl: absoluteparanoia: FTFA: Voters by a substantial majority think a woman is likely to be elected president of the United States in the next 10 years, and nearly half (48%) think Hillary Clinton is at least somewhat likely to be the one.

I do survey design for a living, and if that's honestly how they're asking the questions then they might as well not run the survey period.

"Question 1. Do you think that Hillary maybe might somewhat be possibly a choice that could conceivably become maybe the president in a the somewhat near future? Yes/No"

If you really did survey design well you'd know the questions were framed like this:

Q1. How likely or unlikely do you think there will be a woman President in the next ten years?
A. Very Likely
B. Slightly Likely
C. No opinion
D. Slightly Unlikely
E. Very Unlikely

Q2. I'm going to read off a list of names, and you tell me how likely or unlikely using that same scale you think it is they will be President:
Q2a. Hillary Clinton
Q2b. Condoleeza Rice
Q2c. Your mom

The nearly half (48%) think Hillary Clinton is at least somewhat likely to be the one just means they totaled up the responses of A and B, so 48% said they either thought it was Very Likely or Slightly Likely. You want to suffer like a surveyor? Say "Slightly Likely" 100 times.

As one who works in market research/political polling, the term often used is "Somewhat" Likely, not "slightly".

/TMYK*

Gallup did "Slightly" way back when I was there, but the point"s the same about structure.